Davis
Center
for Russian
and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar, February 1-16, 2007
Please note: This covers only the first half of February.
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Occasional Seminar
"Power and Influence: Russia and Energy Policy in Central Asia"
Theresa
Sabonis-Helf, Associate Professor of National Security
Strategy, National
War College
1730
Cambridge Street, 3rd
Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
Friday, February 2,
2007
Early Slavists’ Seminar
“The Expression of
Love: Fileo and Agapao in the Greek and Slavonic Texts of the Gospel
According
to John”
Olga Strakhov, Cataloging Assistant, Gund
Hall Library, Harvard
Graduate School
of Design
1730
Cambridge Street, 3rd
Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
Wednesday, February
7, 2007
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
"History and
Catastrophe: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Warsaw
Ghetto Archive"
Samuel Kassow, Professor of
History, Princeton
University
1730
Cambridge Street, 3rd
Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
Wednesday, February
7, 2007
Modern Russian History Search
"Imperial Russia's
Child Labor Laws: Challenging the Autocratic
Paradigm"
Boris
Gorshkov, Ph.D. in History, 2006, Auburn
University; Visiting Assistant
Professor, European and World History, Auburn University
35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall, first floor library
4:15
- 5:30 pm
For more information,
please contact Janet Hatch (Department
Administrator, History Department) at (617) 496-4057.
Thursday, February
8, 2007
Literature and Culture Seminar
"Czech
Movies/German Occupation, 1939-1945"
Peter Demetz, Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and Literatures,
Yale University
1730
Cambridge Street, 3rd
Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
Friday, February 9,
2007
Comparative Economics Seminar
“The Revival of
Sino-Russian Economic
and Political Relations and the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization”
Pan Guang, Director
and Professor, Shanghai Center for International Studies and Institute
of
European & Asian Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences;
Dean, Center
of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS)
1730
Cambridge Street, 3rd
Floor, Room #S354
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Monday,
February 12, 2007
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop
"The Effect of Inequality in
Post-Communist Democracies”
Boriana
Nikolova, Visiting Graduate Student, University of Chicago
Papers are
available on the website at www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/.
There is no
presentation; all participants are expected to have read the paper in
advance
of the meeting.
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
Monday, February 12,
2007
Modern Russian History Search
"It is Not at Present the Century of Women:
Patronage, Political Crime, and the Limits
of Female Power in Eighteenth-Century Russia"
Michelle
Marrese, Ph.D. in History, 1995, Northwestern University; NEH Research
Fellowship
35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall, first floor library
4:15
- 5:30 pm
For more information,
please contact Janet Hatch (Department
Administrator, History Department) at (617) 496-4057.
Wednesday, February
14, 2007
Book Talk
“How Russia Really Works: The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business”
Alena Ledeneva, Reader in Russian Politics and Society, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Chair:
Timothy Colton, Director, Davis
Center; Professor of
Government, Harvard
University
Discussant: Gerald Easter, Senior Fellow, Davis Center;
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Discussant: Jessica Allina-Pisano, Associate Professor, School
of Political Studies, University
of Ottawa
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S030
4:15 - 6:00 pm
Wednesday, February
14, 2007
Modern Russian History Search
"The Making of the
Russian Empire in Crimea, 1783-1853"
Kelly O'Neill,
Ph.D. in History, 2006, Harvard
University; Post-Doctoral
Fellow, Davis
Center
35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall,
first floor library
4:15
- 5:30 pm
For more information,
please contact Janet Hatch (Department
Administrator, History Department) at (617) 496-4057.
Thursday, February
15, 2007
Literature and Culture Seminar
"From Sentimental
Friendship to Soviet Citizenship: Women's Community and the Utopian
Dimensions
of Realism in Chernyshevsky, L. Tolstoy, and Stalinist Film"
Anne Eakin Moss, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis
Center; Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University
1730
Cambridge Street, 3rd
Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
Friday,
February 16, 2007
Literary Study Group
"The Bow Curve
Shore of Time and
Space:
Pushkin's Prologue to Ruslan and Ludmila"
James Russell, Faculty Associate, Davis
Center; Professor
of Armenian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room #S354
3:15 - 5:00 pm
To purchase a parking
permit at the Broadway Garage (located at the intersection of Broadway
&
Felton St. in
Cambridge,
MA),
please visit
Harvard
University
Parking Services at
http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml.
Click on the “One-Day Online Permit” tab in the left hand column, and
follow
the instructions from there. If you have any questions or problems,
contact the
Parking Services
Office at 617.495.3772.